keating and gallipoli, page-22

Get a grip, Boffin. "continue to praise our fallen diggers for their national spirit and the exents they will go to for the welfare of their country" It was naivety and an appetite for adventure in the main that led the diggers to Gallipoli (cruelly exploited by the cynical and worldly British). To invest them a century later with god-like motives and bravery is in itself naive.